Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate stability of our Present State of Knowing Awareness along with the unstable impressions that are the manifestation of ever-changing obsessive thoughts. Sobriety is recovery from the insanity of symptomatic compulsive behaviors.  Emotional sobriety is the sane dissolution...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of our shared current events.  Sobriety is sanity from any symptomatic compulsive behavior. Emotional sobriety is sane living from the insanity of reactive, impulsive obsessive thoughts central to acting out in all the varied symptomatic forms of addiction. T...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share.  Life provides all possibilities including the right to think impossibility is possible.   Reality and Truth do not suffer when we suffer the thoughts we make up.  To think a thought is reality and the...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled - always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share.  Life provides all possibilities including the right to think impossibility is possible.  Reality and Truth do not suffer when we suffer maligned thoughts - we make up.  To think thought is reality and...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share.  Life provides all possibilities including the right to think impossibility is possible.  Reality and Truth do not suffer when we suffer the thoughts we make up.  To think thought is reality and then w...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share. Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is sane living. We Know We Know We are as We Are Things are as they are We Are Aware We Are Aware We know more than we think we know Humans...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share. Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is living sanely. Selfish, self-centered, self-serving ideas are thoughts. Thinking about thinking creates more thoughts. Thinking about thi...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share.  Life provides all possibility including the right to think impossibility is the only thing possible.  Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.   Emotional sobriety is sane living.  To think all we are...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share. Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is sane living. Reality is not insane.  Insanity is not reality.  To think insanity is real is to think insanely.  Perhaps this irrational a...

- Contact - Neal is an artist and local friend. We met recently and our discussion speaks for "it'self" as we talk about noticing the distinction between what we think and that which we know.  Neal will be back for a second and third conversation so we can continue to build an arc of understanding to see how easy it can be to dissolve destabilized thoughts by having them as they are...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share. Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is sane living. Circumstances are consequences offering a textbook perspective on how well our thinking is relating to the steady, unshakeab...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  so always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we all share.  Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is sane living. Reflection, as an awakened contemplative meditation, is the chance to see what we imagine, as imagined - distinct fr...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled -  so always happening now - as each episode reflects the fluidity and immediacy of the current events we share.  Sobriety is sanity from any compulsion.  Emotional sobriety is sane living.  It is not sane to think that thinking of it-self can become who we are and our reality - while it is nothing more than...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled and always happening now - so each episode reflects the fluid motion and immediacy of the current events that we all share. To think thoughts are reality is a dream where fighting to overcome the nightmarish idea seems to become life’s purpose.  If fundamental ideas about our “self” and Life are wrong, our ex...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion and immediacy of current events. Exercise: Start by thinking about anything you think you have no control over. This can be as subtle or intense as an incessant recurring thought, or a chronic reaction or impulse. These sort of tho...

- Contact - Gabe has been involved in our discussion for a little over eighteen months.  He has been a faithful attendee and diligently insightful in sharing his experience which includes the difficulties of coming to terms with what is actually happening.  He shares the bumps he finds to help identify issues that may help others advance in witnessing them.  I'm very glad to share him with yo...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion and immediacy of current events.  Knowing we have an Absolute Source that is sound, stable, and ever presently available does not mean we are thinking as well.  Our stable basis provides the clarity to see what we are thinking sinc...

- Contact - Some basic contemplative points -   We are free to think whatever we want.  This freedom is absolute allowing us to think what is true is false and what is false can be true.  This reveals our loving nature since there are no limits placed on our choices.  Errant thoughts imagined to be correct have no effect on Reality or Truth.  Inherent in Freedom is Responsibility which by the choi...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion and immediacy of current events.  Choice always allows not to be chosen. Choosing to think we shouldn’t be thinking what we’re thinking, while thinking what we’re thinking, is the choice to think what is impossible is possible. To...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.  The sun does not go up or down, we go around. The sun is out even when clouds abound. The earth was never at the center of the universe even when it was thought to be.  If basic thoughts about our environment ar...

- Contact - M OD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.  Taking a joke personally is seldom funny since laughing at a self we only think we are is as discomforting as it is embarrassing. Developing a persona reflecting the seasonal inner landscape of thought is to str...

- Contact - Humility is having things as they are. Since things are as they are this means thoughts interactive relation with things is naturally at ease. To think of things as more or less is to choose to think of what we’re thinking rather than those things. This choice disrupts the natural order when we think those things are only what we think of them.  Feeling disconnected is common when this...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.  Addiction is an obsessive commitment to make impossibility possible.  Imagining that being consumed with thought turns what is false into truth and reality starts as a weak impression that becomes depressing the...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode always reflects the fluid motion of current events.  Consider the following questions forwarded to the group in advance of this discussion: If any perfect essence exists is it essential? Would feeling it exists confirm IT or only confirm what we think and feel?  Co...

- Contact - MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each will always reflect the fluid motion of current events. Obsessive thoughts are never happy since they ponder the impossibility of success as they are bound to fail. Thinking of itself, when thought to be reality, thinks up more thoughts obsessed with them-selves thinking s...